Rustless buckle.



A. VAN BRUNT.

RUSTLESS BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-27, 1913.

1,186,622. Patented June 13, 1916.

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RUS'ILESS BUCKLE.

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Application filed August 27, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAM VAN BRUNT, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Rustless Buckles, of which the following is aspecification.

My present invention relates to an improved form of toothless andrustless suspender buckle, and it refers to that particular type ofbuckle shown and described in my prior Patent #1,021,018, dated March26, 1912.

It is the object of my invention to produce a simple and efficient formof buckle of the above class including coacting horizontal clamping-barsmanipulated by an operating-lever and between which the-running portionof the webbing is adjustably Secured; to design and arrange the parts sothat the attached end of the webbing may be secured to the lower one ofthe two horizontal clamping-bars in a way to require less webbing forits attachment to the bar, and further in a manner to allow the webbingto be more easily and quickly stitched after being threaded over thebar; further to design and construct the several parts so that thewebbing may be strung rustless and so that such webbing when attachedwill more completely cover the metal of the back of the buckle than ispossible with other forms of rustless buckles; and finally to design thebuckle so that the said horizontal clamping-bars will operate insubstantially a vertical plane with relation to each other.

I have illustrated my improved form of buckle and a modification thereofupon the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, andupon which similar characters of reference will be found to designatelike or corresponding parts throughout the several figures, and of whichY Figure 1, shows a front perspective view of the preferred form of myimproved suspender buckle. Fig. 2, is an open front view of the samebuckle with the end of webbing attached thereto. Fig. 3, is an edge Viewof Specification of- Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Serial No. 786,818.

the buckle, in an open position and attached webbing as shown in Fig. 2.Fig. 4, is a side view of the buckle in a closed position, and withwebbing attached and threaded therethrough. Fig. 5, is a verticalsectional view of the buckle in a closed position and with webbingattached, F ig. 6, is a detached perspective view of the wireframe-member of the buckle. Fig. 7, is a detached front view of theclamping-member of the buckle shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 8, is a frontopen view of a slightly modified form of construction of my buckleinvention, and, Fig. 9, is a detached front view of the clamping-memberof the buckle as shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 a broken diagrammatic viewofthe buckle showing the coupling of the lower ends of the two framemembers for their sliding movement upon each other to insure thecoaction of their clampingbars.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this specification, it willbe seen that the buckle is'formed of three pieces of metal, two of whichare preferably made of wire and the third of sheet metal. The sheetmetal partforms the operating or levermember, while the wire parts formoperative or clamping-members. The two wire members are each bent toform loops that are pivotally connected to the sheet-metal levermemberand by means of which said wire members are, moved with relation to eachother.

On the drawings A represents what I term the frame-member of the buckleand which, as will be noted, includes a horizontal clamping-bar 10,vertically disposed end bars 11 and inwardly disposed pintles 12 thatare pivotally mounted within sockets 13 of the lever-member B. The lowerportion 14 of the end bars llare disposed rearward to set the horizontalclamping-bar 10 of the frame-member back to form the rearmost part ofthe buckle and to also form the lowest extremity of the buckle.

C indicates the second wire looplike member of the buckle and which Ispecifically designate as a clamping-member. This clamping-memberincludes a horizontal clamping-bar 15 which is arranged above andparallel with the horizontal clampingbar of the frame-member and whichin practice serves to clamp the webbing between it and the horizontalclamping bar of the said frame-member. This clamping bar also includesvertically disposed end portions 16 which are in substantial alinementwith the vertically disposed end bars 11 of the framemember, and inpractice the two said .end bars are in slidable engagement with eachother. This clamping-member is also provided with upper bars or pintles17 which engage sockets 18 of the lever-member in a way to form apivotal connection that is eccentric to the pivotal connection of thesaid lever-member with the frame-member. The action of theoperating-lever is obviously to raise and lower the clamping-member withrespect to the frame-member and in a way to cause the horizontalclamping-bar of the clamping-member to be raised and lowered insubstantially a vertical plane with respect to the horizontalclamping-bar of the framemember.

As before stated, the end portions of the frame-member andclamping-member slidably engage each other in a way to form guides onefor the other. In addition, I also preferably provide a lug 22 upon theunder side of the horizontal bar of the clampingmember which serves toengage the webbing when attached to the lower bar 10 of the frame-memberand to thus form a further guide to insure a positive and verticalmovement of the clamping-member and its clamping-bar with respect to thehorizontal clamping-bar of the frame-member. The said clamping membermay be viewed as consisting of a single piece of wire bent midway of itslength to form the depending guiding lug or extension 22 and thehorizontal clamping bar15, then upward and inward at right angles toform the end portions 16, and then upward and outward at right angles toform the pintles 17. Under the construction shown and described, theextension 22 and the end portions 16, have sliding engagementrespectively with the opposite sides of the clamping bar 10, and thevertical bars 11 of the frame member, so that the two members, whilefree to slide upon each other, are interlocked so as to insure theco-action of the clamping bars which would otherwise be swung out foroperative relation to one another, by the action of the lever member.

The webbing D has its attached end looped over the lower horizontalclamping-bar of the frame-member and is secured thereto by means of asingle row of stitches indicated by 19. In this respect it will beespecially noted that the said webbing is attached to the bottommost andrearmost member of the buckle, which is the lower clamping-bar 10 of thebuckle, in a way to require a shorter end of webbing for attachment tothe buckle, and in a way to permit the said end to be stitched on moreeasily and quickly. The webbing is next returned to form a loop 20 inthe usual Way and its running portion 21' is threaded from front to rearover the attached horizontal clamping-bar 10 of the frame-member andunder the horizontal bar 15 of the clamping-member and then deflectedupward back of the buckle in a way to cover all the metal of the back. i

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9, I have shown aslightly different form of clamping-member which is designed to requirea shorter length of wire than that shown in Fig. 7. The pintle ends 17in this form of clamping-member as will be seen, are disposed inwardinstead of outward as in the other form. These pintles engage thelever-member, when open, above the pintles of the frame-member andobviously have the same operative relation with the lever-member B thatthe other clamping-member C has, and as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The

guide lug 22 as shown on the clamping-mem-.

ber of the preferred form is also omitted from the bar 15 in this formand which is to show that the principle of my buckle can be operativelycarried out without the use of this guide lug.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is: V

1. A rustless buckle comprising a clamping member having end portionsand at its lower side a horizontal clamping bar that includes adownwardly extended lug, a frame member including end bars and having atits lower side a horizontal clamping bar that is in slidable engagementwith the said lug and extending below the. said clamping bar of theclamping member for the direct attachment of the fixed end of thewebbing to it, and a lever member having eccentric pivotal connectionwith the upper side of the said clamping and frame members, the lug andend portions of the clamping member being adapted to have simultaneoussliding move- I ment upon the clamping bar and end bars of the framemember and vice versa, and in a way to hold said clamping bars inoperative alinement. V

2. A rustless buckle comprisinga clamping member formed with ahorizontal clamping bar having a guiding extension, a frame memberhaving end bars terminating at their lower ends in a horizontal barwhich is set back of their plane for the sliding en- .gagement of itsfront face by the said extension of the clamping member, and a levermember having eccentric pivotal connection with the upper ends of thesaid clamping and frame members, whereby on account of the engagement ofthe front face of the bar of the frame member by the extension of thebar of the clamping member and the engagement of the rear faces of theend bars of the frame member by the front faces of the end bars of theclamping member, the clamping and frame members are slidably connectedtogether.

Signed at Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New York this23rd day of 10 August, A. D. 1913.

ABRAM VAN BRUNT.

Witnesses:

ELIZABETH VAN BRUNT, CONRAD C. BRANDT.

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